New Books in Higher Education

Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A coalition of educators and allies has come together to push back against a variety of different kinds of attacks on higher education and students at...

Teaching International Students in Australia

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Agi Bodis and Dr Jing Fang about international tertiary student...

Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The presidents of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians join the podcast to talk about the effects of historical...

David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularly in the curr...

Project Management for Researchers

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our book is: Project Management for Researchers: A Practical, Stress-Free Guide to Getting Organized (U Michigan Press, 2025), by Dr. Shiri Noy, whi...

Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Well Worth Saving (Yale University Press, 2019), Professor Laurel Leff explores how American universities responded to the sudden and urgent appe...

Anne Greenwood Mackinney, "Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past two decades, natural things—especially those collected, exchanged, studied, and displayed in museums, such as animals, plants, mineral...

Teaching With Positive Psychology Skills

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Studies show that students who have a positive outlook on their lives outperform students who don’t. Is positive thinking a skill? Can it be taught?...

Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024) is an imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a plac...

Kent Kauffman, "Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While full- and part-time college faculty and lecturers go about their jobs—doing all that is seen (teaching and publishing) and unseen (class prep,...

Lisa Kallman Hopkins and Bridgit McCafferty, "Innovative Library Workplaces: Transformative Human Resource Strategies" (ACRL, 2025)

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Good workplaces require both autonomy--giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work--and collaboration in pursuit of common goal...

Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar about his new book, English Language...

Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies (Princeton UP, 2024), the Introduction of which is available at the publisher's website, Kecia Ali delves...

Adam R. Nelson, "Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America (U Chicago Press, 2023) launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history ...

Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientists Lauren C. Bell, Allison Rank, and Carah Ong Whaley have a new edited volume, Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an E...

American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Steven Brint, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy ...

Martín Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As of 2018, only about one in ten Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) students graduate with a college degree. Drawing on in-depth interviews, part...

Silvia Vong, "Critical Management Studies and Librarianship" (Library Juice Press, 2024)

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Critical Management Studies and Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on Library Management Education and Practice (Library Juice Press, November 2024...

Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Resistance to feminist, queer, and antiracist pedagogies can take many forms in the composition class: silence during class discussion; tepid, bland w...

Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the car...

Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples and Things host, Lee Vinsel, is joined by guest host and Peoples & Things producer, Joe Forte, Media Projects Manager with Virginia Tech Publi...

April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do Black women experience education in Britain? Within British educational research about Black students, gender distinctions have been largely ab...

Loleen Berdahl et al., "For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities" (U Alberta, 2024)

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts...

Why Teachers Turn to AI

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Sue Ollerhead. Dr. Ollerhead is currently a Senior Lecturer in L...

Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did public demand shape education in the 20th century? In The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Secon...

Graduate School Myths and Misconceptions

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s daunting when you don’t know what to expect about graduate school…or you’re worried you won’t measure up. This episode helps dispel the...

Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press, 2024) tells the little-known story ...

Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Spodek disconnected his Manhattan apartment from the electric grid in May 2022. Over time, he has reduced his consumption and contribution to lan...

Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Lindsay Weinberg evaluates how this latest era ...

Threats to Academic Freedom in Thailand

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are the threats to academic freedom in Thailand? Why does the freedom of scholars and students matter for society at large and how are the attack...

Richard Davenport-Hines, "History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft" (William Collins, 2024)

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined hi...

A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024),...

Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Madison’s Notes, we’re joined by Professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder for a thought-provoking discussion on the state of fre...

Jae Jennifer Rossman, "Access to Special Collections and Archives: Bridging Theory and Practice" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the early 20th century, American academic libraries have collected and championed rare and unique non-circulating materials now referred to as s...

Kathleen A. Abromeit and Dyani Sabin, "Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy" (Library Juice Press, 2024)

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Becoming a more equitable librarian is an ongoing process. In the face of the last decade’s events and increased public awareness of issues of diver...

Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From their founding, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) educated as many as 90 percent of Black college students in the United State...

Kathryn Houk et al., "Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Practices" (ACRL, 2024)

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Academic library hiring can be a bureaucratic and exclusionary process. Inclusive hiring practices can help libraries recenter the people in the proce...

Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Tho...

Russell T.. McCutcheon, "Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline: On the Future of a Humanities Ph.D." (Equinox, 2024)

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Given the continued challenges that face the higher education job market in the Humanities in North America, this multi authored volume offers (i) a c...

Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathet...

Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut...

Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu...

Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024...

Why Not Be Kind?: A Discussion with Catherine J. Denial

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: A Pedagogy of Kindness (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024), by Dr. Catherine Denial, which explores why academia is not, by and ...

Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Anthony Cond

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 bo...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential...

Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens ...

Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented ef...

Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of R...

Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a si...

Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this ...

David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’? These elements of the Trump presidency s...

Caitlin Gerrity and Scott Lanning, "Conducting Original Research for Your Library" (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024)

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book he...

William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato,...

Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, "Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this disc...

Think Outside the Community!

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Rick Rabiser, Professor for Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Systems, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. We t...

Before and After the Book Deal

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask. Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, ...

Melissa Osborne, "Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associat...

Celebrating Constitution Day Pt. 1: A Conversation with Cass R. Sunstein

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for an in-depth exploration of Professor Cass Sunstein's latest work, Campus Free Speech (Harvard University Press, September 2024).  Toget...

Mariana Craciun, "From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers an examination of how novice psychiatris...

Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage ...

Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, "Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes - from shifting relations between social groups and evolving langu...

Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on...

Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite e...

Find Your Argument

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you been told your draft isn’t ready yet, because you still need to find your argument? We have all gotten that feedback at some point. But wha...

Le Lin, "The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s s...

Michele Santamaria and Nicole Pfannenstiel, "Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the Acrl Framework" (ACRL, 2024)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristi...

Anthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But wh...

Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co...

Decoding the Academic Job Market

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When professor jobs are scarce and most academic jobs are temporary, what do you do if you still want to work on a campus? Can you make the leap to ad...

Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co...

The Dissertation-To-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript (U Chicago Press, 2023)

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you turn a dissertation into a book? Today’s book is: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Ma...

Ben Kaplan and Danny Parkins, "Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA" (Triumph Books, 2024)

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Ben Kaplan about his new book (co-authored with Danny Parkins) Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule t...

Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sour...

Sandra Hirsh, "Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imag...

Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rema...

Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2009, Fudan University launched China’s first MFA program in creative writing, spurring a wave of such programs in Chinese universities. Many of ...

American Muslim Women on Campus

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with award-winning academic Dr. Shabana Mir discussing her book Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identit...

PhDing While Parenting

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their per...

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren L...

Sommer Browning and Isabel Soto-Luna, "Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2022)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers ...

Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's...

Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, staff, and faculty transform these institutions into ...

Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to th...

Bryan Hanson on Disrupting Academic Bullying

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Bryan Hanson, ombudsperson for Virginia Tech's Graduate School, about a program he developed called Disru...

Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia, "The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice" (MIT Press, 2024)

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Ju...

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, "The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2023)

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2023) elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Bla...

Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby, "Learning for the Love of God: A Student's Guide to Academic Faithfulness" (Brazos Press, 2014)

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby about their book Learning for the Love of God: A Student's Guide to Academic Faithfulness (Brazos ...

Leading from the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: Leading From the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), by Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, which is a...

Kathryn Telling, "The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige" (Policy Press, 2023)

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of higher education? In The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige (Policy Press, 2023), D...

Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and...

Darren Wershler et al,, "The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A hybrid lab functions in the space between institutions and infrastructure, creating new opportunities for understanding their interconnection. Howev...

Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024)

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people aff...

James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with James McElvenny about his new book A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II (Edinburgh UP, ...

Kelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak, "Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services" (ACRL, 2024)

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despit...

Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive,...

Cathryn M. Copper, "The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forward, and Creating Change" (ALA Editions, 2023)

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Using techniques garnered from startups and quickly evolving technology companies, in The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forw...

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay ...

John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner ...

Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historically...